This year's Van Clibrun piano prize winner is a Russian.
On Sunday night, Kobrin won the gold medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, considered the premier contest for classical pianists.
Kobrin, 25, said it felt like a music festival because there was no cutthroat competition among the contestants.
"We're all musicians, and we do the same thing. We have the same ideals, the same dreams," said Kobrin, who received numerous curtain calls and even had roses thrown onstage after some performances. "You have to forget that this is a competition."
Many years ago, Van Cliburn made his name by winning a comp in Russia. But who cares?
Biting the Bullet Part 10,003
I'm working on the dialogue pre-mix for 'Key Psycho'. This is proving to be arduous and brain-screwing to say the least. maybe I don't really like this line of work where I struggle with clips of sound one by one for what seems like a small eternity only to move on to the next sound clip that needs tweaking in line with the 5000 other clips that preceded it. it's painstaking work and frankly, my pain has been staked to my back. Ouch.
I'm full of complaints at this point in time. My back aches; my eyeballs ache; the Yankees are slumping; working on my film has turned into a drag; I'm still struggling on struggle street; and what used to be the noble fucking free world is run by assholes from the planet stupid - and somewhere there's an overfed gollum out ther gloating. It's all enough to make one scream. So here it is:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!
And Now For The Space News
Mars rover Opportunity is now unstuck.
NASA engineers cheered this weekend when images returned from Mars showed the six-wheeled geological research vehicle was finally freed from the dune and making tracks, according to a posting on the JPL Web site (www.jpl.nasa.gov).
Engineers worked for nearly five weeks to maneuver the craft out of the dune. A photograph on the JPL Web site showed fresh rover tracks stretching across what appeared to be the surface of a large dune.
Opportunity and its twin robotic explorer, Spirit, are 16 months into their mission and have been traversing opposite sides of the red planet since landing there in January 2004.
Great, they still work.
- Art Neuro
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